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MORE READINGS LISTING 21-end JUNE and then for the SUMMER of 2014--in PARIS, FRANCE!
PART I: READINGS AND EVENTS to finish off June 2014 in style
PART II: WRITING and other WORKSHOPS IN
PARIS this summer!
PART III: REVIEWS NEWS & NEW
REVIEWS: CALLS FOR
WORK, NEW BOOKS and REVIEWS: where to send YOUR work and some summer writing
prompts to keep you going until la rentrée!
JUNE 21st onward listing of events by date
NEW* 21 June around 7PM Elena Rivera, poet NYorkaise, will be reading as part of Thomas Hirschhorn's Flammes éternelles
installation. This weekend is also the FINAL WEEKEND OF THIS SHOW so do
check it out! http://www.flamme-eternelle.
21st June 4:00pm
We’re delighted to present our own contribution to the Fête de la Musique festivities... Lail Arad. After spending two years touring her first album,
Someone New, across Europe and being hand-picked to perform with the likes of
Devendra Banhart, Moriarty, and Herman Dune, rock'n'roll songstress Lail Arad
is now working on her next record. She's very excited to share her new songs
with her old friends in Paris and to start the new chapter amongst the books of
Shakespeare and Company. “Imaginez un peu un croisement entre Lily Allen, pour
la pétulance british et Carrie Bradshaw lʼhéroïne de Sex and The
City”—Clémentine Goldszal, Elle “Sparky melodies and lyrics full of warm wit
and wry domesticity”—TimeOut Connect with Lail on Facebook: www.facebook.com/lailaradmusic
AT: Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la
Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité
21 juin à 14h30 DANS LE CADRE DES DIX ANS DE
VIOLETTE AND CO Table-ronde “Femmes cinéastes et
leur rapport au monde” préparée et
animée par Brigitte Rollet (UVSQ-CHCSC), au Forum des Images, en partenariat
avec le Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir (Nicole Fernandez Ferrer) et le
Forum des images, suivie d’une projection AT : la librairie Violette and
Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. www.violetteandco.com/librairie/
22
June from 11h30-13h00 DONATION-BASED Yoga CLASS IN SUPPORT
OF ROOM TO READ An open level yoga class to raise
funds for Room To Read, helping bring literacy where it is most needed. By donation—and taught by Ann
Moradian. For more info on the place, equipment and her many other yoga classes
throughout June, write to her at annmoradian(at)gmail
(dot)com or see her website at http://www.rendezvousyoga.org/
MONDAY
(week 4)
23rd June 7:00pm
Join us for a fascinating panel discussion with the five judges of the Man Booker
International Prize 2015. Bearing in mind the tradition of
Shakespeare and Company as a haven for literary expats, the judges will discuss
displacement and exile in the work of writers who adopt another language and/or
another country. The judging panel for the Man Booker International Prize 2015
is chaired by Marina Warner CBE, the writer and academic, and consists of
novelist Nadeem Aslam; novelist, critic, and Professor of World Literature in
English at Oxford University Elleke Boehmer; Editorial Director of the New York
Review Classics series, Edwin Frank; and Professor of Arabic and Comparative
Literature at SOAS, University of London, Wen-chin Ouyang. As novelists, both
Nadeem and Elleke live in the UK but set their work in their places of birth,
Nadeem in Pakistan and Elleke in South Africa. The prize is sponsored by Man Group plc, which
also sponsors the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The Man Booker International
Prize is significantly different from the annual Man Booker Prize for Fiction
in that it highlights one writer’s overall contribution to fiction on the world
stage. In seeking out literary excellence the judges consider a writer's body
of work rather than a single novel.The winner of the Man Booker International
Prize 2014 was Lydia Davis. The Man Booker International Prize 2015 website: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/man-booker-international-prize-2015
AT: Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie,
75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité
23 June 7PM—"Enough of Why ?" Round table with Ramuntcho Matta, the writer Pacôme Thiellement and Philippe Ducat, followed by a concert with the saxophonist Simon Spang-Hansen. Presentation of the new monograph by Ramuntcho Matta, L’usage du temps, and his latest album Météorismes. Ramuntcho Matta encounters and has exchanges with one of the basic values of his life and work. Under the sign of sharing, the evening will be devoted to this prolific artist’s new works. Ramuntcho Matta offers us a monograph, L’usage du temps—published by Manuelle edition—in which he calls upon his friend and accomplice Philippe Ducat, to offer him repartee. He will also be presenting us with his latest album, Météorismes, produced by SomeTimeStudio. Pacôme thiellement will be the chosen interlocutor. Because what is that united these three musketeers if not love of the essence of time: Music. And as the three musketeers were four, the saxophonist and painter Simon Spang-Hansen will enliven this evening in the company of Ramuntcho Matta’s guitar. AT: Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, 12, rue Boissy d'Anglais,75008 Paris M° Concorde or Madeleine
23 June from 8pm SpokenWord – open mic/scène ouverte: performance
poetry, stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken
word. Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or
favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron.
Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin
underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come alive. Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud.
Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/
NEW* 24 June at 19h30 Join us/rejoignez-nous: For an
anglophone reading/avec traductions avec Craig Dworkin & Cole Swensen BIOS : Craig Dworkin Craig Dworkin
is the author of five books of poetry, including Chapter XXIV(2013), Motes (2011),
and The Perverse Library (2010), and two critical
monographs: Reading the Illegible (2003) and No Medium (2013). He
has edited five volumes, including Against Expression: An
Anthology of Conceptual Writing (2011) with Kenneth
Goldsmith, and The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound (2009)
with Marjorie Perloff. A professor at the University of Utah, he
also serves as Senior Editor to Eclipse, an online archive of radical
small-press writing from the last quarter century <eclipsearchive.org>. Cole Swensen is the
author of fourteen volumes of poetry, most recentlyGravesend (U. of
California Press, 2012) and Greensward (Ugly Duckling Presse,
2010) , and a volume of essays, Noise That Stays Noise (U. of
Michigan Press, 2011). Four volumes are available translated into
French, Nef (Petits Matins) and Si Riche Heure, L'Age
de Verre, et Le nôtre (Éditions José Corti). She is the co-editor of the Norton anthology American
Hybrid, the founding editor of La Presse Books, which publishes French
poetry in translation, and a translator of French poetry and art criticism. Her
awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a PEN USA Award for Literary
Translation. She’s been writer-in-residence at Yale’s Beinecke Library, the
Pratt Institute, and Temple University, and currently teaches at Brown AT: la maison de la
poésie Passage
Molière 157 Rue St. Martin 75003 (reservations via their site
highly recommended!!!)
NEW* 24 June 24 at 7pm (19h00): Monica A Hand will give a reading. For a bio and information on the poet, see http://www.monicaahand.com/ or check out her most recent book from Alice James publishers in the
states, me and Nina http://www.alicejamesbooks.
NEW* 25 June 4PM - 6PM A Free
Publishing Panel for writers, sponsored by 2014 Paris Writers Workshop and hosted by the American
University of Paris-- visit pariswritersworkshop.org for more information. 2014 Paris
Writers Workshop Experts’ Panel “Getting Published - A Writer’s Options” Traditional
publishing is changing as digital publishing transforms the industry. What does
this mean for you, the writer? The Paris Writers Workshop (PWW) has
invited five experts who’ve seen it all – agent representation, self-published
e-books, “curated” publishing, blogging, hybrid publishing. Join us as
they share their their ideas, followed by Q & A.WITH Samantha Chang,
author, director of the Iowa Writers Workshop, and 2014 PWW
Writer-in-Residence. Mark
Kessler, literary agent, Susanna Lea Associates, Paris, New York, London.
Hannah Seidl, former literary events manager, WHSmith Paris. Linda
Fallon, head buyer, Shakespeare and Company Paris. Facilitated by Laurel Zuckerman,
author, editor of Paris Writers News. AT: Campus of the American
University of Paris, Combes Building, Room C12, 6, Rue du Colonel Combes, 75007
This PWW event is free of charge & open to the public.
NEW* 25 juin at 20h30 Head over
to « Le Bal » for a bilingual reading including book launch with Ian Monk, Joe Ross
and Rufo Quintavalle et des traductions
de Jérémy Robert À l’occasion de la parution de leurs
nouveaux recueils, dont ils liront des extraits : Ian
Monk : Là (Cambourakis) Joe Ross : 1000 Folds
(Chax Press) and Rufo Quintavalle : Weather Derivatives (Eyewear
Publishing) BIOS: Ian Monk est né près de Londres et vit à Lille
où il travaille en tant qu’écrivain et traducteur, notamment de Hervé Le
Tellier, Georges Perec, Raymond Roussel et Jacques Roubaud. Après avoir
contribué au Oulipo Compendium (Atlas Press) il est devenu
membre de l’Oulipo en 1998. Il a publié des livres en anglais – Family
Archaeology et Writings for the Oulipo (Make Now), en
français – Plouk Town et La Jeunesse de Mek-Ouyes (Cambourakis),
et même dans les deux langues – N/S (avec Frédéric Forte; Éditions
de l’Attente). Joe Ross est l’auteur de douze livres de poésie.
Entre 1991 et 1997 il a été l’éditeur littéraire de The Washington Review,
et il est également co-fondateur des séries de lectures In Your Ear à
Washington, D.C. et Beyond the Page à San Diego, California. Il a reçu en
1997 le National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award pour sa poésie et il a
gagné le Gertrude Stein Poetry Award trois fois – en 2003, 2005, and
2006. Il vit à Paris. Rufo Quintavalle a été responsable de la
rubrique poésie de la revue électronique nthposition, a été membre du
comité de rédaction de la revue littéraire Upstairs at Duroc, et
a dirigé entre 2011 et 2013 la série de lectures Poets Live. Ses œuvres
sont publiées par Oystercatcher Press (UK) et corrupt press (France) et ont été
nominées pour le Pushcart Prize et le Michael Marks Award. Il travaille
actuellement sur une collaboration avec le compositeur britannique James Weeks.
AT : Le Bal, 6 Impasse de la Défense, 75018 Paris (métro Place
de Clichy)
25th June 7:00pm The Art & Carpentry of Fiction The making of fiction requires the mysterious vision
of art and the practical carpentry of craft. In this seminar for emerging
fiction writers, acclaimed novelist Kathryn Heyman will
lead you through the crucial elements for creating great fiction. Kathryn
Heyman is the award-winning author of five novels. She has taught fiction for
the University of Oxford and now directs the fiction program for Faber Academy
in Australia. www.kathrynheyman.com
"The structure of the Curious Incident owes a great deal to Kathryn
Heyman, with whom I was teaching a course some years ago. She was talking to
the students about structure.. as she spoke, the heavens opened, angels
sang..." "The structure of the Curious Incident owes a great deal to
Kathryn Heyman, with whom I was teaching a course some years ago. She was
talking to the students about structure.. as she spoke, the heavens opened,
angels sang..."--Mark Haddon, author of Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night Time “Kathryn is an inspirational and charismatic teacher. With her
trademark energy and humour, she encouraged me to ask the hard questions.” Jane
Rusbridge, author of The Devils Music, Longlisted for Impac Award AT: Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie,
75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité
25 June—19h30 to 10pm. Open air jazz and poetry event in partnership with the Périphérie du
Marché de la Poésie, celebrating the Congo. The CCI is delighted to present an eclectic evening
of poetry and jazz, featuring Congolese-Irish Niwel Tsumbu and his band The
Multiverse, poets from the Congo region
and Irish poet
Kevin Barrington, whose time in the Congo has permeated his writing.
As well as performing music from his electric jazz-rock trio project with
bassist Peter Erdei and drummer Shane O’Donovan, Tsumbu will perform new music
composed for the festival with lyrics provided by visiting Congolese poets. A
well-known figure in music circles in Ireland since he arrived in 2004,
Tsumbu’s unique idiom of Congolese soukous, jazz, electric rock and classical
guitar, his dazzling improvisations and the intensity and passion with which he
delivers make him quite remarkable. Detailed programme of the Marché et sa
Périphérie : www.poesie.evous.fr
Niwel Tsumbu will also perform at Place St-Sulpice on the opening evening of
the Marché de la Poésie, 11 June (admission free), at the Bpi-Centre Pompidou
on 16 June and at Maison de la Poésie on 19 June. Rates: €7 (€5 for
students and unemployed people), reservation recommended, in English and French.
AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des
Irlandais, 75005 Paris Tél : 01 58 52 10 30 or reservations@centreculturelirlandais.com
26 June@20h - Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring
LINDA CAMPLESE More details
coming at parislitup.com/eventsAT: Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix,75020.
26th of June til the 10th of July: THEATRE IN
PARIS is happy to announce the launch of its new theatre offer for English
speakers in Paris : The Magic Flute by Mozart,
in a theatre & musical version, at the Théâtre des Variétés. French
plays. English surtitles. The performances that include our exclusive English
surtitling service will be staged from the 26th of June til the 10th of July in
this breathtaking venue. Attached are
the press releases (in French and English), as well as the flyer and a visual
description of our English-friendly service. Tickets are on sale on www.theatreinparis.com, where you can also find a preview
of the show and more details on the production, the cast and the venue.For any
further question, please contact Carl de Poncins : Tel : +33 6 66 77 14 57 E-mail : cdeponcins@theatreinparis.com
26 June at 7PM-- "What remains
of the beautiful poem you read to me from behind the furniture ?" Free
admission: Book Presentation and
discussion with Alain Rivière and Jean-Yves Jouannais. Félicien
Marbœuf is "the greatest writer with no work to his name." So goes
Jean- Yves Jouannais’s essay on artists without works. In 2009 the author, who
wanted to give renewed substance to this tutelary figure of withdrawal,
commissioned artists for an exhibition he organized on the master of absence at
the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard. Alain Rivière’s contribution consisted in a
series of photographic portraits of French and foreign writers, all with their
eyes closed. Their dates of birth or death all implied that their lives
overlapped with Félicien Marbœuf’s: all of them could have been read by him or
could have met him. For each, the artist produced a new portrait, sampling
contemporary prints to produce the material needed for these grafted
eyelids—and for the ghostly compositions they helped create. Rivière thus
attributed a strange fad to Marbœuf: accumulating portraits of writers on their
deathbed, or simply asleep. The collection gives a plastic form to the great
silence that shapes Marbœuf as a figure: he did not leave an œuvre but dreamed
literature. On the occasion of this publication, the gallery of portraits is
augmented with a second collection facing it, pieces of paper accumulated by
the odd character throughout his life. His literary abstinence means that time
alone has left its trace on these, smudged, torn, scribbled over, marked with
undecipherable traces and signs. Finally, four letters, kept preciously by the
master in his red-edge pocket cabinet, have been selected by Jouannais from the
correspondence between Félicien Marbœuf and Marcel Proust. They provide
information on the origin of the collection, shedding light on the intentions
of the former and their reception by the latter. AT: Fondation
d'entreprise Ricard, 12, rue Boissy d'Anglais,75008 Paris M° Concorde or Madeleine
JULY / OTHER SUMMER 2014 EVENTS—
This listing goes on HIATUS until mid-September
2014, but some events and series do continue. Check into websites for the
regulars and great events often co-organized with NYU at Shakespeare and Co or
the Paris Writers’ Workshops with AUP. Here are a few:
MONDAYS in July and
Aug: from 8pm SpokenWord – open mic/scène ouverte: Au Chat Noir, 76 rue
Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes &
Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/
THURSDAYS in July and August too: PLU (Paris Lit Up) at
Cabaret Voltaire. Check their scheduled events to participate in
their open mic night: http://parislitup.com/open-mic-poetry/
This is also a place to schedule a guest appearance for authors passing through
this summer (guest features read for about 20minutes on the night)—Poetry,
fiction, some music and more!
July 2 to July 23: AUP weekly readings by internationally recognized
authors will
be part of the AUP Summer Creative Writing Institute! Please contact
Jeffrey Greene with any questions. Workshop info link: http://www.aup.edu/academics/summer/three-week-summer-session/literature-creative-writing
5 July
– 12
noon to 3 pm SOS Help summer book sale Don't miss the annual summer
clearance sale of gently used books in English, which raises
funds for the worthy SOS Help telephone hotline in Paris. A bag of books is only 5 euros. No book donations this
time, please. AT: outside St Joseph's Church, 50 avenue Hoche, Paris 8e, Metro
Etoile http://www.soshelpline.org/events.html
NEW* UNTIL 12 juillet : art/language show : humainnonhumain Une proposition d’Anne Bonnin with works by Alexandra Bircken,
Bruno Botella, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Miriam Cahn, Jean-Charles de
Quillacq, Jochen Lempert, Jean-Luc Moulène, Jean-Marie Perdrix, Michael E.
Smith. Le « non
humain » évoque d’emblée tout ce qui semble contredire ou détruire l’idée
d'humain, il fait surgir des images de robots, de prothèses bioniques,
d’extra-terrestres, de chimères de toutes sortes, mais aussi de monstres trop
humains, que l’humanité semble produire si naturellement. SEE more at : http://www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com/Expositions/view/100-humainnonhumain-annebonnin AT: FONDATION D'ENTREPRISE RICARD,
12 rue Boissy d'Anglas
75008 Paris, Entrée
libre du mardi au samedi de 11h à 19h www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com
Part II: Writing and other Classes—
summer
writing workshops in Paris, or benefit courses for reading causes and more!
Saturdays at
16h: 21st and 28th of June,
then all July and August on Saturdays at the same time- Paris Lit Up Drop-in
Writing Workshop Are
you a writer? Have you written something that needs fresh eyes? Want some
feedback on your work? Look no further! Paris Lit Up Drop-in Writing Workshop
is held every Saturday at 16h sharp! This feedback workshop is for any writers
– poetry or prose – looking for eagle-eye editing and constructive group
criticism of their work. The workshop is held every Saturday afternoon at
Apparemment Café (18 Rue des Coutures St-Gervais 75003) and coordinated by one
of our four professional workshop hosts, Heather Hartley, JF Mc Gimsey, Kate
Noakes and Paul Stevenson. Please bring 5 – 10 copies of your work. Suggested
donation: 3€ For more information: http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops/
AT: Cafe Apparemment, 18 Rue des Coutures
Saint-Gervais, 75003. Come one week or come every week!
Sunday, June 22, 2014 from
11h30-13h00 DONATION-BASED Yoga
CLASS IN SUPPORT OF ROOM TO READ An open
level yoga class to raise funds for Room To Read, helping bring literacy where
it is most needed. By donation—and taught
by Ann Moradian. For more info on the place, equipment and her many other yoga
classes throughout June, write to her at annmoradian(at)gmail (dot)com or see her website at http://www.rendezvousyoga.org/
JUNE 23-28 PWW with WICE: http://pariswritersworkshop.org/ Master class courses will be taught by
distinguished authors in novel (full), non-fiction, short story and screenwriting.** The PWW program will include
stimulating panels on literary trends and readings with faculty.•
Fine-tune your writing with our award winning faculty • Work in an
intensive and friendly environment • Receive step-by-step information on
how to get published • Meet literary agents. PWW welcomes new and established
writers. * Please note that the event kicks-off Monday, June 23 in the early
evening with a Welcome Reception and mandatory Registration. Classes begin
Tuesday morning, June 24 and run through Saturday, June 28. ** Early Bird Deadline April 30, 2014!
WEDNESDAY 25 June 4PM - 6PM A Free Publishing Panel for
writers, sponsored by
2014 Paris Writers Workshop and hosted by the American University of Paris--
visit pariswritersworkshop.org for more information. 2014 Paris
Writers Workshop Experts’ Panel “Getting Published - A Writer’s Options” Traditional
publishing is changing as digital publishing transforms the industry. What does
this mean for you, the writer? The Paris Writers Workshop (PWW) has
invited five experts who’ve seen it all – agent representation, self-published
e-books, “curated” publishing, blogging, hybrid publishing. Join us as
they share their their ideas, followed by Q & A.WITH Samantha Chang,
author, director of the Iowa Writers Workshop, and 2014 PWW
Writer-in-Residence. Mark
Kessler, literary agent, Susanna Lea Associates, Paris, New York, London.
Hannah Seidl, former literary events manager, WHSmith Paris. Linda
Fallon, head buyer, Shakespeare and Company Paris. Facilitated by Laurel Zuckerman,
author, editor of Paris Writers News. AT: Campus of the American
University of Paris, Combes Building, Room C12, 6, Rue du Colonel Combes, 75007
This PWW event is free of charge & open to the public.
Craft talk : 25th June 7:00pm The
Art & Carpentry of Fiction The making of fiction requires the mysterious vision of art and the
practical carpentry of craft. In this seminar for emerging fiction writers,
acclaimed novelist Kathryn Heyman will lead you through the crucial elements
for creating great fiction. Kathryn Heyman is the award-winning author of five
novels and directs the fiction program for Faber Academy in Australia. www.kathrynheyman.com AT: Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie,
75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité
JULY 2014: SIGN UP EARLY FOR PARIS’ JULY SUMMER WORKSHOPS At the AUP Summer
Creative Writing Institute! from July 2 to July 23 with two workshops: Writing Fiction and Crafting
Personal Narrative. Here is the link: http://www.aup.edu/academics/summer/three-week-summer-session/literature-creative-writing
This is the 3rd edition of the Summer Creative Writing Institute at the
American University of Paris. With two workshop choices as well as weekly
readings by internationally recognized authors, combined classes for guest
speakers and Paris literary field trips, and, always one of the best parts, a
final student reading and party. Summers are packed with literary events
at Shakespeare & Co, Spoken Word, and other venues. The Summer
Creative Writing Institute faculty has decades of experience in teaching
writing at excellent institutions and the American University of Paris is the
home for the prestigious Center for Writers & Translators, a Master of Arts
in Cultural Translation, and a large Department of Comparative Literature,
offering a major in Literature and the Creative Arts and a minor in Creative
Writing. Soon opening an MFA program. Please contact Jeffrey Greene with
any questions.
PART III: NEWS REVIEWS and REVIEWS NEWS: places to submit
work, new book announcements, magazines waiting for your writing and MORE!
SUMMER WRITING PROMPTS—after all, why not supply you with a
few sites trying to spur you onward as you seek texts, words, ways of looking
at the world? Here are a few sites I came across. http://www.creativity-portal.com/howto/writing/summer.writing.prompts.html
and this blog does a monthly “What if” set of prompts—here are those for June: http://ideas4writers.wordpress.com/
Marie Telling's BUZZFEED PARIS' fun listing of Paris reads--books steeped in, inspired by, mesmerized by, captivated inside the world that is this city of lights and darks--a lovely list for those away or here this summer! http://www.buzzfeed.com/marietelling/40-books-that-will-make-you-want-to-visit-france
NOW OUT Uniformbooks’ “Living
Locally” by Erica Van Horn Foreword by Susan Howe. 66 black and white drawings. ISBN 978 1 910010
02 0. 144pp, 234 x 142mm, sewn paperback with flaps. £12.00 Living Locally
selects entries from a daily journal written over five years about rural life
in and around a farming valley in Tipperary, to the north of the Knockmealdown
Mountains. With needle-sharp observation and in plain words, Van Horn makes
remarkable what might otherwise have gone unrecorded: the familiarity of
neighbours, of animals and of weather, the regularity of the patterns of
transaction on roads and in nearby villages and towns, and, from an outsider’s
perspective, the unfamiliarity of speech and custom. What results is a human
geography whose immediacy recalls earlier local and rural records and
enquiries, such as the diary of Francis Kilvert in the Welsh Borders in the
1870s, or Cecil Torr’s recollections from his Dartmoor village, Small Talk at
Wreyland. In common with these is a concern with both the colloquial and the
vernacular, and the strangeness found in such a concentration of repetition and
usage. Susan Howe writes in her Foreword: “Erica Van Horn has produced a
meticulous field guide of what it means to be an American discovering the
embedded, entangled mysteries of being Irish.” See more or to purchase at http://www.colinsackett.co.uk/livinglocally.php
SUBMIT WORK TO : CORDITE POETRY
REVIEW
in Australia. The
forthcoming theme is: CONSTRAINT being guest edited by Corey Wakeling who says
“I hope you’ll use this issue as an opportunity to intensify your work’s
relationship to a constraint or constraint as such, admit its medium, and
conjure a smile or grimace from its textual prison. Constrain yourself to
submission!” Oulipian wannabes, this is for YOU—see full guidelines at http://cordite.org.au/submissions/
! Read their current issue online now NO THEME III at: http://cordite.org.au/content/poetry/notheme3/
and also check out their online chapbook anthologies—the most recent, SPOON
BENDING, edited and selected by Kent MacCarter (which I mention as a perso
publicity moment, too, as one of my CERN poems I was thrilled to have included
there). http://cordite.org.au/content/chapbooks-features/
READ online the new Paris
Writers’ Workshop Director interviewed! Laurel Zuckerman/Paris Writers News has a great
new interview up with the new Director of the Paris Writers Workshop... http://www.laurelzuckerman.com/2014/05/monique-amaudry-director-of-the-paris-writers-workshop-interview.html
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JOSH COREY’s NEW NOVEL is out! Fourth book but first novel, Beautiful
Soul: An American Elegy, by Josh Corey with Spuyten Duyvil Press, June 1st
2014. What’s the novel about, you ask? Ruth,
a bored and frustrated young mother in the Chicago suburbs, is haunted by the
letters she receives from her own mother, who has been dead for several years.
Ruth hires Lamb, whose investigation traces the letters to Europe and
ultimately to Gustave, who tells the story of his equivocal love affair with a
mysterious and alluring young American woman during the student rebellion in
Paris in 1968. But this young American is less carefree and less American than
she seems; she is haunted by her own half-lit memories of the unnarratable
horrors of European history, and she may turn out to be Ruth's mother, if not
Ruth's second self. Beautiful Soul: An American Elegy is a darkly glamorous existential noir in the
late modernist tradition of José Saramago, W.G. Sebald, Italo Calvino, and
Roberto Bolaño. Written in gorgeous and elliptical prose, this electric first
novel is a love story, a ghost story, and a psychological thriller about
the enigma of American innocence, the fatality of storytelling, and the
precarious destiny of reading itself. "This powerful novel, which pays out its rewards gradually, carefully,
but also crisply, dare I say electrically, may be Joshua Corey's first, but it
feels exactly like the highly satisfying product of the fully formed
imagination that birthed it. All of Corey's hard-earned skill as a poet is put
here to useful work. The push-pull between stunning language and inventive
narrative is pure pleasure.”--Laird Hunt “…Beautiful Soul, with its ever-shifting parameters, from
periphery to center and back again, is a testament to the infinite longing for something
or someone who isn't there, the last word on a world where everything matters.”--Lewis
Warsh For online ordering, here are some viable links in order of
preference: Spuyten Duyvil Press
- http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/beautiful-soul-an-american-elegy.html Powell’s Books - http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780923389581-0 Barnes & Noble - http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beautiful-soul-joshua-corey/1119129749?ean=9780923389581 Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/dp/092338958X Please also keep a
lookout for Corey’s forthcoming fourth book of poems, The Barons, to be
published in October by Omnidawn!
BELLADONNA OFFER: Subscribe at $100 level and
receive this special limited offer from Belladonna* Collaborative! Announcing a Special Edition of Open
Box by poet Carla
Harryman and musician and composer Jon Raskin, comprised of the
book Open Box: Improvisations (Belladonna, 2007) the CD Open Box (Tzadik,
2012), and a broadside interview designed by HR Hegnauer. Open Box as a
special broadside edition is limited to a printing of 50 copies available
exclusively from the Belladonna studio - quite a rare object! It will be
offered to new Belladonna* subscribers at the $100 plus level through the month
of June. You can listen to a preview of the CD on
our website. Act
fast!
Four Ties Lit Review Online submission deadline: June 30, 2014 Four Ties Lit Review is accepting submissions of Art, Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction From May 16th until June 3oth for Issue III Volume I. Four Ties Lit Review is an independent literary online magazine publishing annually. We are committed to the idea that creative writing and photographic arts are forms of expression that are essential to a thriving modern culture. We aim to publish writing and art that appeals to the widest range of readers, but is still intellectually stimulating and meaningful. For more information visit fourtieslitreview.com/submit/ or to submit visit fourtieslitreview.submittable.com/submit.
Pithead Chapel Seeks Gutsy Narratives Pithead Chapel is a monthly online journal of short fiction and nonfiction. We’re currently seeking gutsy narratives up to 4,000 words, and are particularly interested in essays (personal, memoir, lyric, travel, experimental, hybrid, etc.). Please visit us at http://pitheadchapel.com to learn more about our submission guidelines.
WAVE BOOKS summer SALE: From now until the end of June, select
paperback and hardcover titles are 50% off in our warehouse sale. Free domestic shipping, as
always, check in with us on international shipping rates. A few select titles
include Trances
of the Blast,
Mary Ruefle, Black Life, Dorothea Lasky, Sorry, Tree, Eileen Myles and Selected Poems, Dara Wier--your friends at Wave Books
SAND Issue 9 is Here! Order Your Copy
Today! Life is
anything but solitary. Like water seeping into an empty riverbed, we find our
own borders by discovering where they bump up against others. “How we need
another soul to cling to,” Sylvia Plath, that thorough explorer of the self,
wrote in her journal. Our relationships – with mothers, lovers, or brothers –
are as responsible for making us as anything we think truly springs from
us. SAND Issue 9 is an exploration of our relationships with both others
and ourselves. These stories, poems, and artworks push beyond pithy platitudes
to reveal, in subtle ways, how we're broken and made by those around us. The
SAND team couldn't be prouder to present this stunning issue, designed by our
good friends at The
Curved House. Pick
up your copy at one of Berlin's fine bookshops (list, here), or order a copy online: http://www.sandjournal.com/purchase
DYLAN HARRIS—is up to his neck in
exciting new projects—check
out a few of those here, or order books and perhaps a photo for an empty wall?
: Recent photographs http://dylanharris.org/foto/foto/2014.shtml His book “anticipating the
metaverse” is just out with The Knives Forks & Spoons Press, 2014 http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/anticipatingthem.html “the liberation of [placeholder]”
is also just out with The Knives Forks
& Spoons Press, 2014
http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/theliberationof%5B.html
http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/theliberationof%5B.html
NEW NOVEL by Paris-based author
ROMAN PAYNE with fun “get
your copy” benefit: RECEIVE A PERSONAL, HANDWRITTEN POSTCARD FROM AMERICAN
EXPATRIATE NOVELIST, ROMAN PAYNE: The Huffington Post calls Payne’s new
novel: “A Literary Triumph!” …”The Wanderess” is a tale of love, travel and
adventure set against the backdrop of a timeless Mediterranean landscape.
The story follows the lives of two dreamers travelling Europe in search
of meaning in life and a mysterious fortune that will unite them both.
Purchase “The Wanderess” from Amazon.com or Amazon.fr, and email Payne’s
publisher: Aesthete Press (office@aethetepress.com) and give them your opinion of the
book. Make sure to include your postal address in your email! And
to thank you for reading “The Wanderess” and commenting on the experience,
Roman Payne will personally write you a handwritten “Wanderess” postcard and
mail it to your home. For more information about the book, please visit www.wanderess.com
On the Rusk: Call for Summer Issue Email submission deadline: July 21, 2014 On the Rusk seeks submissions for the Summer Issue. We are looking for any and all types of creative writing and art that does not fit into mainstream journals. Please find the submissions requirements at ontherusk.com/submissions/.
WICE and YOU in PARIS? Looking for writing activities in
Paris? WICE has creative writing courses, a Lit Mag (called UPSTAIRS AT DUROC)
art classes, walking tours and MORE. Check out what they are up to at http://www.wice-paris.org/creative-writing-literature For more on Upstairs at Duroc, see
their site at: http://upstairsatduroc.org/
Read Write Submit! CHECK IT OUT! The new Versal website is now live! After many years of prep and
reflection, this site is FABULOUS! Check it out, sign up for the Versal Monthly
newsletter on the "about" page, get info on their new reading series
in Amsterdam, starting with Peter Gizzi the 8th, and prepare your
own work for submission next fall by subscribing and reading previous issues
this summer!!! http://www.versaljournal.org
Brickplight Seeks Submissions for Issue 4 Submission deadline: July 25, 2014 Brickplight exists to promote the exploration of unique identities through daring poetry. We will be accepting submissions for Issue 4 from June 1st through July 25th, 2014. Please visit our site for submission guidelines: sites.google.com/site/brickplight/submit.
SEND RADIO PLAYS to: The Parislab, which is a monthly
radio show broadcast on World Radio Paris, that performs and records radio
dramas and spoken word tales live with professional actors, in front of a Paris
audience. We see scripts and narrative tales for upcoming episodes.
Here are some upcoming/suggested topics : Strong women. The
one that got away. Can we go back home? Facing fears. Insomnia .
Strong Women. Failure. Sex and Chocolate. For guidelines and
to submit scripts email theparislab AT gmail.com
BLOG
listing print journals to submit writing to during the SUMMER! Thanks for this great list, Diane
Lockward! http://dianelockward.blogspot.fr/2014/05/summer-journals-f-2014.html
here is part II of that list http://dianelockward.blogspot.fr/2014/05/summer-journals-g-p-2014.html
and part III: http://dianelockward.blogspot.fr/2014/05/summer-journals-q-z-2014.html
Check out more on Diane, the originator of this list on her blog, wiki, etc.
She is the author of 3 collections of poems and resides in the USA.
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